7C ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of British and Medieval Antiquities and 

 Ethnography. 



1. — Arrangement, Cataloguing, etc. 



Prehistoric Saloon. — The exhibition of Stone Age specimens 

 in drawers accessible to the public has been continued, and 

 another desk-case added and refitted for temporary exhibitions. 



Romano-British Section. — The collection exhibited in 

 drawers accessible to the public has been periodically over- 

 hauled, and the pier-cases and clock-case at the head of the 

 staircase cleaned inside. 



Anglo-Saxon Room. — Series of flint implements have been 

 stored in the drawers. 



Gold Ornament Room. — The finger-ring collections have 

 been finally arranged and numbered in accordance with the 

 published catalogue. 



Glass and Ceramic Gallery. — Specimens of pottery from 

 the Near East have been mounted on boards and exhibited in 

 drawers accessible to the pubJic. 



Gallery of Religions. — The Buddhist section has been 

 refitted on the north side after structural alterations, and the 

 exhibits have been partly replaced. Many of the Indian sculp- 

 tures have been cleaned and a large number of labels prepared 

 and placed in the Hindu section. 



Asiatic Saloon. — Further progress has been made with the 

 permanent labelling of the Chinese porcelain, and three large 

 cases of porcelain have been cleaned. 



Ethnographical Gallery. — The collections from the Nile, 

 North-east Congo, Uganda, East and South Africa, have been 

 cleaned and re-arranged in wall-cases, and the Hollis and 

 Routledge Collections from East Africa exhibited and labelled. 

 Space has been secured for the late Captain Speedy's collection 

 from Abyssinia and the Macleod Collection from West Africa 

 exhibited in three wall-cases. Objects over the African wall- 

 cases have been re-arranged, and the following sections over- 

 hauled and re-arranged : — Tonga, Samoa, New Zealand, Micro- 

 nesia, Borneo, Nicobar, Tibet and North Asia. Two cases of 

 Japanese armour have also been examined and cleaned. 



American Room. — The Central and South American series 

 have been considerably re-arranged and a large number of 

 labels prepared. Exhibition drawers have been fitted and a 

 collection of Peruvian pottery exhibited. 



Registration. — The registration of current acquisitions has 

 been continued, and 1,012 objects have been added, including 

 ethnographical specimens. Numbers have been painted on 3,128 

 specimens and 1,^23 permanent labels written. Photographs 

 to the number of 275 have been prepared in the Department 

 for purposes of illustration and reference, and 22 impressions 



